Mars exploration is not leaving Earth behind, rather, the knowledge and technology we gain on this quest will change our lives here for better.

Denis Bastieri is a Physics and Astronomy Professor at the University of Padova. He has been selected for Thousand Talents Program Distinguished Professor at the Center for Astrophysics in Guangzhou University. His main interests lie in High-Energy and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, in particular using Low-Power Computing and High-Throughput Computing to deal with Big Data.

Misha, a Chinese-Russian, started playing the trumpet at the age of 8 and fell in love with jazz since then. He was exposed to big bands in college and then fell in love with Swing Dance.

Mina, who loves retro culture and Jazz, met Misha and began to engage in swing dancing. In 2016, she participated Hong Kong Swing Festival and was moved by swing dance with its free, cheerful pace and infinite varieties. And later, she co-founded the Swing Canton with Misha to promote swing dance culture and gathers people who love and enjoy retro culture, jazz and swing dance together.

我们时常纠结于产生某种“最好方式”——甚至因此停下脚步。但其实所谓的“最好方式”并不存在。

志君相信一个更美好的社会有赖于人们主动而有效地参与到互助和助人之中，因此 2008 年他与伙伴们一起创办善导，以“协作者”的身份为公益行动提供支持。以促进个人的觉醒、社群的连结以及社会的公正和可持续。他们的工作方式包括：培养公益协作者、培育中国公益协作者社群，以及直接提供高质量的培训或会议协作服务，团队直接服务过上百家公益组织。We often struggle to produce some "best way" - and hence stop taking actions, but the so-called "best way" does not exist. He believes that a better society depends on the public's active and effective participation in mutual cooperation and assistance. In 2008, he and his partners initiated "v-bus". Since then, they've been engaging in offering support for public welfare activities as "collaborator" with an aim to promote individual awakening, community bonding, and social justice and sustainability.

Their work include: cultivating public welfare collaborators, breeding the community of Chinese public welfare collaborators, and directly providing high-quality training or conference collaboration services. So far, they have provided services for hundreds of public welfare organizations.

Through "design", food can be comtemplated, perceived and digested in a new way, and become the power to leverage the future.

She believes that food is no longer just an object to maintain life or to fill appetite, but also a special medium to carry identity, memory, and civilization. Food design is a process of cognition awakening - to explore the relationship between human and the world by reconstructing how human live with food.

Jelly graduated from St. Martin's Narrative Environment and Innovation in the UK. She's been devoted to food innovation study and design. Her works include the Whispery Savoury multi-sensory experience project co-launched with Crossmodal Research Lab at Oxford University, and food campaign projects like "Opening the World's Important Topics with Food" and so forth. For her brilliant works, she won the Mullen Lowe Nova for Innovation and was invited to participate London Design Week.

受另一个项目，“人在胡同”的启发， Cameron 决定开始打造自己的系列作品，并补充了更详细的故事层。正是在这个项目的工作中，Cameron 才更深地体会到中国的多元，“也许我自己或其他人都永远无法真正理解一切，但我觉得试一试也未尝不可！”“You could spend 100 years in China and every day you’d see something new.”Born and raised in the UK, Cameron Hack was passionate about traveling from a very young age. When he started to work in China, he was in awe of what this country has to offer. Through a side project “Humans of China”, Cameron Hack is exploring the diversity of China, one picture (and a story) at a time. Inspired by another project “Humans of Hutongs”, Cameron decided to start his own series, adding a new layer of stories for details. It is when working on this project that Cameron realized how diverse China is, “maybe myself or others will never really be able to comprehend all these, but I want to give it a go!”

His body can visually embody narratives, through which we can confront ourselves, societies and looking for the roots of our wandering souls.

Ergao was born in Yang Jiang, a small town in Guangdong Province. Graduated from APA, Hongkong, he is a multi-media dancer and choreographer who work across dance, film, installation and another creative medium. He founded ErGao Dance Production Group (EDPG) in 2007 in Guangzhou, with a focus on dance theatre, dance film, community art, and dance education. He uses the body as a site of artistic investigation to explore Chinese social and cultural identities, sex, gender, and other social problems through interdisciplinary practices.

Selected works: Disco-Teca adopts 80s disco culture to invite the audience to explore their identities that are in a constant of flux. This is a Chicken Coop investigates the interactive impacts between urban development and rural places through our shared memories with chickens and childhood.

I began truly immersing myself into this rural land when I unlabelled myself from being an architect.

Cyrus Li is an architecture graduate from Wuyi University. As a pleasant-looking architect, he likes to rush over the countryside in his tooling boots with a straw hat around his neck.

At school, he was a core member of the "Cangdong Project", participating in the Kaiping Rural Heritage Conservation Project to help villagers repair and conserve the Diaolou and villages. After graduation, he dedicated himself in the rural areas. As a co-founder, he transformed the closed mechanical factory into an international youth hostel, Tangkou International Youth Space (also known as Tangkou Space) in the old market of Tangkou, Kaiping. “Tangkou Space” is not only a hostel, but also an important public place to activate local communities, connect locals with outsiders, and promote local culture brands to an international market.

From words to images, from finance to plants, Yefei Li was driven by his curiosity and ultimately, became a self-educated botanist after four years of studying. He knows every detail of the plants around us.

He founded Plant Planet, using words and images to introduce the beauty and sorrow of the world of plants and to depict the relationship between plants and a good life.

He has opened "the world's most bitter" herbal tea shop in a alley in Shanghai. He will discuss the origin of herbal tea culture in Guangzhou, as well as the plants of herbal tea that we commonly see yet ignore.

All plants embrace their natural processes - from blooming to withering. However, only when we focus on and care for nature, we could discover the fun of life.

Wei Lin, manager of "BREW BY HEART" coffee shop, a visually impaired people who dream of owning a guide dog and opening a coffee shop.

She's among the first batch of visually impaired people who took SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) Barista Skills certification in August 2018 in China. She has a guide dog named Alan. Wei Lin and her story is a model for visually impaired people of dreams coming true.

Lin Xin, project manager of "BREW BY HEART" and "Improvement of Art Therapeutic Ability of Old People Living Alone". She's devoted to the innovative employment for the disabled and spiritual care for the elderly because she holds the view that everyone has their own abilities and values and is willing to take creative actions to promote integration and sustainable development.

She actively reminds people that we shouldn’t be gatekeepers of outdated traditions.

Maria Rosa Lourens was born in the coastal city of Durban located at the west coast of South Africa. She has lived in South Africa, Algeria, England, and China. Wherever she goes, she observes culture and politics, as well as the arts and music. Through these changes in the cultural environment, she realizes how some mothers are still educating their daughters to adapt to the past, rather than the future.

Jianming Luo's actions and efforts in the public welfare field was initiated by the 2009 protest against the proposed Waste-to-Energy Incineration plant in Panyu district.

Focusing on waste classification and management, he advocates for zero-waste through connecting government, business, and communities, developing public participation platforms, to explore and practice sustainable solutions for waste around the city.

成员包括主唱/吉他包子，吉他/合成器刘凯龙，贝斯手阿该和鼓手龙智航。2017 年，Nouvelle 发行了第一张同名 EP，凭借青春躁动的永不妥协的态度崭露头角。随后发行单曲《你是我不能服用的毒药》（2018）、《受害者》（2019），为当下沉闷的音乐场景注入一剂名为“清醒”的猛药。Nouvelle is a guitar rock band from Guangzhou. They vied for a place in the valley of guitar rock with their distinctive melody and punky distorted guitar tone. Bearing an introspective music attitude, they constantly remind young people to keep a clear mind in the changing times.Members include Vocal/Guitar Baozi, Guitar/Synthesiser Kailong Liu, Bass player A Gai and Dummer Zhihang Long.In 2017, Nouvelle released their first EP named "Nouvelle", and was known for their restless, uncompromising attitude. Later, the single "You are the poison I can't take" (2018) and "Victims"(2019) were released, refreshing the dull music scene with "a dose of medicine".

“I have always believed that the greater achievements you have as a dorctor, the more you should value humanity than the techniques.”

Professor Donglin Ren is a doctor of medicine, doctoral tutor and a professor of surgery at Sun Yat-Sen University. In 2018, Professor Ren's team used a biological patch material developed from the small intestine of the pig to “repair” the “hole” of a patient's rectum. This was the world's first successful case in rebuiling human rectum with a biological patch from pig's small intestine.

In his spare time, Professor Ren loves writing and traveling. He believes that medicine is a science that requires tender care.

Life has now gone wild and intense, how does architecture catch up with it?

As a young architect with a thorough grasp of the contemporary era. Ziyi Wang is interested in exploring future architectures while studying on vibrant young people. He founded the [ Yeah Archkids ] architectural design studio. For his latest conceptual work, [Neuro-x City], he designed a cyborg-like paradise designed for the new generation.

[Yeah] Represents a variety of new lifestyles emerging from the new generation in the Internet era, such as "no disco, no life", which he jokingly called "what a wild and intense life!";

[Arch] implies such an attitude: architects should not design other people's lifestyle. Instead, they should be like "kids", with a courteous attitude to pursue and to study the ones who love new life, so the buildings will ceaselessly grow and renovate like a child.

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